About: Walter E. Williams
Posts by Walter E. Williams
Democrats’ Hoodwinking of Blacks
Since its founding in the late 1820s, the Democratic Party has defended slavery, started the Civil War and opposed Reconstruction. The Democratic Party imposed segregation. Its members engaged in...
Overpopulation Hoax
The entire premise behind population control is based on the faulty logic that humans are not valuable resources. The fact of business is that humans are what the late...
Sheer Lunacy on Campus
Parents, taxpayers and donors have little idea of the levels of lunacy, evil and lawlessness that have become features of many of today's institutions of higher learning. ...
What Do Leftists Celebrate?
For those who see Karl Marx as their hero, there are a few historical tidbits they might find interesting. ...
Environmentalists Are Dead Wrong
Each year, Earth Day is accompanied by predictions of doom. Let's take a look at past predictions to determine just how much confidence we can have in today's environmentalists'...
Worse Than Racists
Many whites are ashamed and saddened by our history of slavery, Jim Crow and gross racial discrimination. As a result, they often hold blacks accountable to standards and conduct...
Metastasizing Academic Cancer
The average American has little knowledge of the extent to which our institutions of higher learning have been infected with a spreading cancer. One aspect of that cancer is...
Is Profiling OK?
Profiling is needlessly a misunderstood concept. What's called profiling is part of the optimal stock of human behavior and something we all do. Let's begin by describing behavior that...
Educational Sabotage
The new discipline imposed on public schools is called restorative justice. Rather than punish a student through exclusion (suspension), restorative justice encourages the student who has misbehaved to reflect...
Transgender Challenges
Determining one's own sex or that of another used to be a simple matter. First, there was the matter of appearance, whether a person looked like a male or...
Liberty Is Not for Wimps
Most Americans, whether liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican, do not show much understanding or respect for the principles of personal liberty. We criticize our political leaders, but we...
College Campus Disgrace
While college administrators and professors accept disgraceful behavior, we as taxpayers, donors and parents should not foot the bill. Let's look at some of that behavior. ...
Undermining Academic Achievement
High schools confer diplomas attesting that students can read, write and compute at a 12th-grade level when in fact they cannot. ...
There’s Nothing Free
Costs can be concealed but not eliminated. If people ignore costs and look only to benefits, they will do darn near anything, because everything has a benefit. Politicians love...
From Russia With Love
The Democrats and their media allies would love to find some Russian collusion and interference. I can help them discover some, but I doubt that they will show much...